OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Law and Psychiatry is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
PTSD malingering detection in damage claim cases: Diagnostic accuracy in cases of personal injury as a result of motor vehicle accidents	17
Editorial Board	16
Community treatment orders: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives	14
Use of the least intrusive coercion at Danish psychiatric wards: A register-based cohort study of 131,632 first and subsequent coercive episodes within 35,812 admissions	10
Men placed on waiting lists for psychiatric admission from Irish Prisons over five years: Clinical outcomes during a forensic “bed crisis”	10
Culpability for offenses in frontotemporal dementia and other brain disorders	9
Conflicting purposes: Guardianship law, mental health law and involuntary detentions	9
Editorial Board	9
‘I was going into it blind’: Nearest Relatives, legal literacy, and the Mental Health Act 1983	9
Examining the health and criminal justice characteristics for young people on compulsory community treatment orders: An Australian birth cohort and data linkage study	9
The p factor, crime, and criminal justice: A criminological study of Caspi et al.'s general psychopathology general theory	9
Influencing factors for assessment of criminal responsibility in patients with mental disorders: A forensic case analysis between 2010 and 2020	8
Comparisons of beliefs in mental health stigma in communities and those who police them	7
Medicalisation and participation in legal capacity determinations in Chile	7
The debate about physician assisted suicide and euthanasia in Ireland – Implications for psychiatry	7
Diagnosing psychopathy in an intercultural setting: Applications and implications in postcolonial contemporary Mayotte	7
Personality moderators of the cross-sectional relationship between job demands and both burnout and work engagement in judges: The boosting effects of conscientiousness and introversion	7
Psychiatric advance directives and consent to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in Australia: A legislative review and suggestions for the future	7
Capacity and incapacity: An appropriate border for non-consensual interventions?	6
Is this an underestimated problem? Using coercion before psychiatric hospitalization	6
A repertoire and critical review of international resources relevant to medical assistance in dying where a mental disorder is the sole underlying medical condition	6
Privacy and safety: Issues of dual compliance in high-secure and other forensic psychiatric hospitals	6
The role of ‘micro-decisions’ in involuntary admissions decision-making for inpatient psychiatric care in general hospitals in South Africa	6
RIGHTCARE-PR: Reporting guidelines for human rights in child and adolescent psychiatry	6
Large language models and psychiatry	5

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and suggestibility: A survey of United States federal case law	5
Editorial Board	5
Evaluation of the sensitivity of the Health Screening of People in Police Custody (HELP-PC) tool in Northumbria Police, UK	5
The psychometric properties of the Forensic Stigma Scale (FSS)	5
A framework for the evidence-based practice of therapeutic jurisprudence: A legal therapeutic alliance	5
Forensic aspects of dissociative positive symptoms in trauma-related disorders and borderline personality disorder	5
Assessing the validity of self-report of psychopathy short-form (SRP-SF) in incarcerated offenders from Chile and Uruguay	4
Consumers' experiences of rights-based mental health laws: Lessons from Victoria, Australia	4
Does adolescent drug use belong on the antisocial spectrum? Mediating the drug–crime connection with cognitive impulsivity	4
Remodelling criminal insanity: Exploring philosophical, legal, and medical premises of the medical model used in Norwegian law	4
Policing psychiatric illness: An organisational paradox for Health & Law	4
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and decision-making: Legal & ethical hurdles for implementation in mental health	4
England and Wales draft Mental Health Bill: Implications for people with intellectual disabilities	4
Forensic psychiatry patients, services, and legislation in Nunavut and Greenland	4
Perception of the criminality of attempted suicide in Nepal and its impact on suicide reporting	4
Predictors of recovery in a medium secure service: Influence of the Welsh Government's Mental Health (2010) Measure	4
Abolition of coercion in mental health services – A European survey of feasibility	4
Role of psychopathology on children credibility of sexual abuse testimony	4
Homicides by offenders with psychotic illness in Italy and Turkiye: A comparison of offender and crime-scene profiles	4
The violence profile of male mentally disordered offenders in a high secure unit in Turkiye	4
The collaborative development through multidisciplinary and advocate consensus of an accessible notice of rights for people with intellectual disabilities in police custody	3
The use of community treatment orders in people with substance induced psychosis	3
Mental health professionals' perceptions and attitudes towards seclusion: The ambivalent relationship between safety and therapeutic considerations	3
Editorial Board	3
The contribution of psychopathic traits and substance use in the prediction of recidivism of sexual offenders	3
Sociodemographic, psychiatric and criminal characteristics of elderly offenders under evaluation for criminal responsibility in Turkey	3
Restricted patients in New Zealand: A failed social experiment with a hybrid form of civil/forensic compulsory mental health treatment	3
Perspectives on the eligibility criteria for euthanasia for mental suffering caused by psychiatric disorder under the Belgian Euthanasia Law: A qualitative interview study among mental healthcare work	3
Criminal insanity in Bulgaria and Norway: Analysing the prospect of a common approach	3
Homicide perpetrators with psychotic illness found not criminally responsible in Turkiye and Russia: An international comparison	3
Editorial Board	3
Contextual factors influencing the use of coercive measures in Portuguese mental health care	3
Effects of psychological torture and cybertorture with emerging digital technologies under anti-torture legal obligations in China: A mixed methods research in risks and remedies	3
Assessment of suicide probability and related factors in male incarcerated adolescents; a sample of reformatory center in Turkey	3
A descriptive analysis of sentencing decisions by the Canadian criminal justice system of people with intellectual disabilities convicted with sexual offences	3
Control in the community: A qualitative analysis of the experience of persons on conditional discharge in Hong Kong	3
Compulsory treatment in Portuguese-speaking countries: An analysis and comparison of the legal framework	3
Artificial intelligence in insanity evaluation. Potential opportunities and current challenges	3
Assessing mental capacity in the context of abuse and neglect: A relational lens	3
Means of restraint in residential care when there is no acute danger. Time for the European committee on the prevention of torture to set the standard	3
‘Evaluation of testamentary capacity: A systematic review’	3
Antisocial personality disorder and determinants among prisoners in South Gondar zone correctional institutions, Northwest Ethiopia: An institution-based cross-sectional study	3
Editorial Board	3
Police use of force standards and mental health crises in the United States: Identifying research and policymaking targets	3
The use of coercive measures in a high security setting in Belgium: Prevalence and risk factors	2
A mixed-methods analysis of the influence of bio-behavioral scientific evidence on U.S. judges' reasoning and sentencing decision-making	2
An International Comparison of Psychiatric Advance Directive Policy: Across eleven jurisdictions and alongside advance directive policy	2
“It just felt like a rubber stamp”: Family experiences of mental health review board hearings in Ontario, Canada	2
Editorial Board	2
Adult safeguarding legislation: Navigating the borderlands between mental capacity, mental health and social care law and practice	2

Coercive measures in disability and mental health care services: Mechanical restraints from a bioethical and legal perspective in Spain	2
Persons with mental disorders and assisted dying practices in Spain: An overview	2
Exploring structural stigma towards mental disorders: An analysis of trial verdicts	2
Mind over matter: Mental illness and sentencing outcomes among homicide cases in Singapore	2
Mental health disorders, adverse childhood experiences and accelerated reoffending among justice-involved youth in Australia: A longitudinal recurrent event analysis	2
Risk factors for involuntary admission in a Romanian patient sample	2
Individual liberty, safety and police liabilities under the mental health (care and treatment) act	2
Editorial Board	2
Modeling the effects of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for police officers: How knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy drive de-escalation skills and referral decisions	2
Decision-making by and for adults with impaired capacity: The potential of the Dutch levenstestament	2
Bias analysis in forensic and non-forensic psychiatric assessments	2
Cognitive biases in forensic psychiatry: A scoping review	2
Between psychopathy and deviant socialization: A close look at the mafia men	2
Mental health, medical incapacity, and political leadership in the United Kingdom: A multidisciplinary analysis of the intersections between psychiatry and constitutional law	2
No man's land: Troubling the borders of mental health and capacity law	2
Unlocking the impact of the CRPD on Swedish mental health law	2
Editorial Board	2
Hospital break. An eight-year review of escapes and absconds from two high security forensic centers	2
Editorial Board	2
Quality of life after involuntary psychiatric admission	1
Elusive cases in forensic psychiatry? Exploring subgroups of schizophrenia spectrum disorder patients in Germany	1
Stakeholder experiences with compulsory treatment at home: A focus-group study	1
Criminal responsibility evaluations: Benchmarking in different countries	1
The mediating role of state anger in the associations between intentions to participate in the criminal trial and psychopathology in traumatically bereaved people	1
“Everyone means well but the one person who's really going to go to bat” - experiences and perspectives of substitute decision makers in caring for their loved ones with serious mental illness	1
The influence of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities on the European court of human rights in the area of mental health law: Divergence and unexplored potential	1
A shifting paradigm? A scoping review of the factors influencing recovery and rehabilitation in recent forensic research	1
Corrigendum to “The mediating role of state anger in the associations between intentions to participate in the criminal trial and psychopathology in traumatically bereaved people” [International Journ	1
Reasons behind the rise in involuntary psychiatric treatment under mental health act 2016, Queensland, Australia – Clinician perspectives	1
Editorial Board	1
Unreasonable minds and imperfect self-defense	1
Legal consciousness of psychiatric patients in Israeli hospitals: Awareness and satisfaction	1
RECAPACITA project: Comparing neuropsychological profiles in people with severe mental disorders, with and without capacity modification	1
What place has ‘capacity’ in the criminal law relating to sex post JB?	1
The reform of Irish mental health law: Aligning with human rights obligations?	1
Persons with mental disorders and assisted dying practices in Spain: In response to Ramos et al.	1
Stigma management during reintegration of older incarcerated adults with mental health issues: A qualitative analysis	1
Correlates and predictors of re-incarceration among Turkish adolescent male offenders: A single-center, cross-sectional study	1
The Dutch Compulsory Care Act: Possible effects on emergency involuntary admissions, treatment, and length of stay	1
Using the interRAI brief mental health screener to identify persons with mental disorders having repeat contact with police	1
A systematic mapping review identifying key features of restraint research in inpatient pediatric psychiatry: A human rights perspective	1
Editorial Board	1
Criminal legal system contact in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD): Experiences and support needs	1
Global prevalence of borderline personality disorder and self-reported symptoms of adults in prison: A systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Editorial Board	1
The Mental Health Bill 2024 in the Republic of Ireland: Potential implications for adults with intellectual disabilities	1